Spirit
Fellow musicians and journalists paid tribute to Sinéad O’Connor, with journalist Caitlin Moran calling her “decades before her time” and singer Alison Moyet saying O’Connor had an “astounding presence” and a voice that “cracked stone with force by increment”.
Musician Tim Burgess of the Charlatans said: “Sinead was the true embodiment of a punk spirit. She did not compromise and that made her life more of a struggle. Hoping that she has found peace.”
No cause of death has been released, but it is know that O’Connor had suffered bouts of depression after the suicide of her 17-year-old son Shane in January 2022.
Belfast filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson had been working on a documentary film about O’Connor, titled Nothing Compares, which was set to be released shortly. “Our film really, for me, it was a love letter to Sinéad. It was made over many, many years,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. “And made because of the impact she’d had on me as a young girl growing up in Ireland.
“She is one of the most radical, incredible musicians that we’ve had. And we were very, very lucky to have had her.”
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